South Korea Online Buzz: Ryu Hyun-jin and Bernard Park

Los Angeles Dodgers starting pitcher Ryu Hyun-jin delivers against the Colorado Rockies in the fourth inning of a spring exhibition baseball game on Sunday, March 16, 2014.

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South Koreans are known for their active online social life. Korea Real Time has you covered on what’s trending this morning.

On Naver, South Korea’s most popular search engine, some of the most searched topics are:

Ryu Hyun-jin’s pitching date: Los Angeles Dodgers pitcher Ryu Hyun-jin will start in the season opener on Sunday in San Diego. It wasn’t clear who would get the Dodgers’ start against the Padres in the opener after ace Clayton Kershaw got scratched from the list because of a sore back. Mr. Ryu, 27, last week had half of his big right toe nail removed in an injury during a game, but he has recovered from the injury more quickly than expected.

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Liverpool vs Tottenham: In a Barclays Premier League match on Sunday, Liverpool routed Tottenham 4-0 at Anfield. The eighth straight win for Liverpool sent the team back to the top of the league for the first time since December.

Bernard Park: Mr. Park, a 21-year-old Korean-American singer, scored a record high for his performance during local TV reality competition show “K-pop Star” on Sunday to advance to the final group of three. He earned 299 points from the three-member panel for singing Richard Marx’s “Right here waiting” on the SBS show. Raised in Atlanta, Georgia, Mr. Park excels in singing R&B and Soul music.

On Twitter, selected top trending topics are:

#Let’s put ’In Bed’ before any song title: Korean online users are having fun adding the phrase “In Bed” to the beginning of song titles to see how the whole meaning changes—often to something awkward, strange or obscene. For example, a song by Park Eun-tae called “I’m a Monster.”

#ItsBYGday: The abbreviation stands for “It’s Bang Young-guk day,” with a number of fans posting tweets congratulating Mr. Bang, the leader and main rapper of South Korean hip-hop group B.A.P, on his 24th birthday on Monday. He was formerly part of underground hip-hop group called Soul Connection. B.A.P. debuted in January 2012 with the single “Warrior.”

Nuclear Test: North Korea on Sunday threatened to carry out a “new form” of nuclear weapons test after its third atomic bomb test a year ago raised tensions and prompted tougher U.N. sanctions against the country. South Korea’s foreign ministry immediately warned its northern neighbor would “pay a price” for conducting another atomic bomb test.